🌅 Golden Hour Noir Portrait

Use the uploaded SCENE REFERENCE IMAGE as the absolute visual blueprint and recreate it SAME-TO-SAME with maximum photographic fidelity. Prioritize reference accuracy over creativity, interpretation, or beautification.

SUBJECT & IDENTITY:
Recreate the exact young adult male subject visible in the reference, preserving his facial identity and natural anatomy precisely. Maintain the same overall face shape, forehead proportions, brow structure, eye placement and spacing, nose bridge and tip, nostril shape, lips, mouth proportions, cheek structure, jawline, chin, ears, natural facial asymmetry, skin tone, skin texture, pores, subtle facial marks, moustache, short beard and beard density. Preserve the exact apparent age and natural masculine facial characteristics. The subject is wearing dark rectangular/soft-square black sunglasses that cover the eyes; reproduce the exact frame thickness, shape, proportions, position, lens darkness, reflections and fit. Include the small silver stud/stone earring visible on the subject's left ear.

HAIR:
Reproduce the thick, naturally wavy/curly medium-length dark brown hair with substantial volume on top. Preserve the messy textured hairstyle, irregular strands, loose flyaway hairs, curl direction, hairline and individual illuminated strands. Strong warm sunlight catches the outer/top hair, creating detailed golden rim highlights while the deeper hair remains naturally shadowed.

EXPRESSION & POSE:
Preserve the exact calm, serious, slightly introspective expression. Head turned subtly toward the subject's right while the face remains mostly visible in three-quarter view. Chin slightly lowered, lips naturally relaxed and closed, shoulders relaxed. Reproduce the exact head tilt, neck position, shoulder orientation and body posture from the reference.

CLOTHING:
Recreate the same brown/taupe textured overshirt or lightweight jacket with a subtle plaid/checkered woven pattern. Preserve the broad collar, button-front construction, overlapping fabric, folds, seams, weave texture and natural wrinkles. The shirt is worn open at the upper chest, revealing a small portion of the chest and neck. Maintain the exact earthy brown color and realistic textile behavior.

COMPOSITION & FRAMING:
Vertical portrait photograph, approximately 9:16 composition. Medium close-up / chest-up framing. Subject occupies most of the central frame with the head positioned around the upper-middle region. Preserve the reference crop exactly: top of hair comfortably inside the frame, shoulders and upper torso extending toward the lower edge. Keep the same negative space and background distribution. Do not recenter, widen, tighten, or alter the crop.

CAMERA & PERSPECTIVE:
High-end full-frame DSLR/mirrorless photographic look, approximately 85mm portrait lens, around f/1.8–f/2.2, natural perspective with mild telephoto compression. Camera positioned approximately at eye level or slightly below eye level. No wide-angle distortion. Maintain realistic facial proportions and subtle perspective compression. Sharp focus concentrated on the subject's face, sunglasses, beard and nearest hair strands while allowing the surroundings to fall smoothly out of focus.

LIGHTING:
Reproduce the dramatic warm backlighting exactly. A low warm sun is positioned in the upper-left background, partially outside/near the frame, producing strong golden sunlight entering from behind the subject's upper-left side. Create a pronounced warm rim light around the hair, left side of the head, ear and shoulder. Individual flyaway hairs become glowing translucent strands against the darker background.

Preserve the strong exposure contrast: bright golden sunlight and flare in the upper-left, naturally illuminated hair and skin, while the opposite/background areas remain substantially darker. Maintain realistic soft fill on the face rather than artificially brightening the shadows. Preserve the directional shadow structure across the face, beard, neck and clothing.

OPTICAL CHARACTERISTICS:
Include authentic cinematic lens flare from the bright sun source in the upper-left, including subtle circular flare artifacts and warm atmospheric glow. Add restrained highlight bloom around the brightest sunlight and hair rim highlights. Preserve realistic glare/reflection on the sunglasses, including subtle environmental/sun reflections without making the lenses transparent. Natural optical falloff toward the frame edges. No excessive artificial flare.

DEPTH OF FIELD:
Very shallow natural portrait depth of field. Subject's face, sunglasses, beard and important hair detail remain convincingly sharp, while the background rapidly transitions into a soft, creamy defocus. Background lights/bright patches form subtle organic bokeh rather than obvious synthetic circles.

BACKGROUND & ENVIRONMENT:
Preserve the indistinct dark outdoor/natural environment behind the subject. The background contains deep olive-green, dark brown and muted earthy tones with heavily defocused foliage/environmental shapes. Keep the upper-right region substantially dark and subdued, contrasting with the warm sunlit upper-left. Preserve the soft warm/orange glow appearing toward the right/lower-right background. Do not introduce identifiable buildings, objects, scenery or additional people.

COLOR PALETTE & GRADING:
Warm cinematic earthy color grade dominated by amber, honey-gold, muted brown, taupe, dark olive-green and deep shadow tones. Skin remains naturally warm without orange oversaturation. Hair receives golden highlights. Maintain rich but restrained contrast, slightly lifted warm midtones and deep natural shadows. Preserve the moody golden-hour atmosphere and subtle filmic tonal roll-off.

TEXTURE & REALISM:
Extremely realistic photographic skin with visible natural pores and fine facial texture; realistic beard hairs, individual hair strands, woven clothing fibers, tiny fabric irregularities and physically plausible material response. Preserve realistic specular highlights on skin, sunglasses and earring. No plastic skin, excessive sharpening, artificial beauty retouching or CGI appearance.

IMAGE QUALITY:
8K UHD, extremely high-resolution professional photography, true-to-life DSLR/mirrorless image rendering, physically accurate light behavior, high dynamic range, realistic highlight roll-off, detailed shadow information, natural micro-contrast, subtle authentic film grain, realistic lens rendering, clean but organic image texture, professional color science, photorealistic tonal depth.

FINAL VISUAL TARGET:
The result must look like an authentic professionally photographed golden-hour editorial portrait captured on a high-end full-frame camera with a fast portrait lens. Reproduce the reference image's subject, identity, pose, clothing, composition, lighting, environment, colors, optical behavior, depth of field and photographic mood as closely as physically possible. Do not add creative elements. Do not reinterpret the scene. The uploaded SCENE REFERENCE IMAGE is the source of truth for every visual decision.

If a separate image labeled [MY FACE] is provided, replace ONLY the original subject's facial identity with the identity from [MY FACE]. Preserve the [MY FACE] person's exact natural facial anatomy and identity while keeping the reference scene's hairstyle, sunglasses, pose, expression, clothing, body, composition, camera perspective, lighting, background, color grading and every other scene element unchanged. Do not alter the [MY FACE] identity beyond what is naturally required to integrate it into the reference lighting.

NEGATIVE PROMPT:
AI-generated appearance, CGI, 3D render, illustration, anime, painting, cartoon, plastic skin, beauty filter, skin smoothing, excessive retouching, face enhancement, facial redesign, face morphing, identity drift, different person, altered facial anatomy, changed face shape, changed jawline, changed nose, changed lips, changed eyes, changed eyebrows, changed ears, symmetry correction, age change, ethnicity change, artificial skin, over-smoothed pores, excessive makeup, unrealistic beard, fake hair, altered hairstyle, different sunglasses, transparent sunglasses, distorted glasses, warped face, asymmetrical glasses, extra accessories, missing earring, altered clothing, different shirt pattern, different pose, different expression, altered body proportions, extra people, objects in background, buildings, text, typography, watermark, logo, oversaturated colors, crushed blacks, blown facial highlights, excessive HDR, excessive sharpening, excessive contrast, fake bokeh, artificial lens flare, excessive bloom, chromatic aberration, fisheye distortion, wide-angle distortion, motion blur, duplicate features, extra fingers, deformed anatomy, low resolution, noise artifacts, compression artifacts, uncanny valley, uncanny face, synthetic photography.

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